Research on Efficacy

Recent research continues to document the effectiveness of Direct Instruction. These studies confirm the accumulated findings of decades of research showing that students taught with DI have higher achievement scores and stronger growth rates than students studying with other curricula.

The recent positive findings for Direct Instruction occur with different subjects. They appear in studies of reading and in studies of mathematics.

Positive findings are documented for students with different racial-ethnic backgrounds: in schools that are predominantly African American, those with substantial numbers of Hispanic students and those with large numbers of non-Hispanic whites.